Italy - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Italy was 36.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.57 in 2020 and a minimum value of 14.56 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 14.56
1961 14.78
1962 14.98
1963 15.18
1964 15.38
1965 15.61
1966 15.92
1967 16.24
1968 16.57
1969 16.94
1970 17.33
1971 17.71
1972 18.07
1973 18.42
1974 18.77
1975 19.14
1976 19.57
1977 20.03
1978 20.42
1979 20.65
1980 20.66
1981 20.54
1982 20.21
1983 19.80
1984 19.50
1985 19.41
1986 19.68
1987 20.10
1988 20.63
1989 21.17
1990 21.66
1991 22.20
1992 22.72
1993 23.21
1994 23.70
1995 24.20
1996 24.77
1997 25.33
1998 25.89
1999 26.49
2000 27.13
2001 27.66
2002 28.22
2003 28.78
2004 29.29
2005 29.71
2006 30.08
2007 30.34
2008 30.54
2009 30.80
2010 31.19
2011 31.66
2012 32.24
2013 32.89
2014 33.53
2015 34.12
2016 34.66
2017 35.14
2018 35.59
2019 36.06
2020 36.57

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population